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Union growth 30 September 2013 UK: Regional strike action over pay and conditions
The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Union of Teachers (NUT), two of EI’s national affiliates, have announced dates for regional rolling strike action in England as a further step in the dispute over pay, pensions, working conditions and jobs.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 30 September 2013 Unite diary: UN meetings focus on education
With little more than 800 days left to reach the Millennium Development Goals, the education focus sharpened dramatically late last week as the UN General Assembly held a special event to review progress made.
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Trade union rights are human rights 27 September 2013 Amnesty International honours young activist for girls and women’s right to education
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban last year for campaigning for girls' education, has been honoured by Amnesty International in Dublin, Ireland. The 16-year-old has shared the Ambassador of Conscience Award with US singer Harry Belafonte for his work on human rights and social justice. Recipients are...
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Trade union rights are human rights 26 September 2013 Call for education and other human rights to be at heart of development goals
EI has joined 15 leading civil society organisations in a call for the human right to education to be recognised and placed at the heart of the post-2015 development framework by member states of the United Nations.
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Union growth 26 September 2013 Call for education and other human rights to be at heart of development goals
EI has joined 15 leading civil society organisations in a call for the human right to education to be recognised and placed at the heart of the post-2015 development framework by member states of the United Nations.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 September 2013 Unite Diary: Education Is A Right That Deserves Continuing Global Goal
It was the closing of a meeting here in New York, but it was a teacher union leader and EI speaker that opened the eyes of participants focusing on a simple proposition: education should be a continuing standalone goal for international development.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 September 2013 Partnership with Intel to boost teaching and learning ICT tools
EI has announced a partnership with the international technology supplier, Intel. This partnership aims at improving the quality of learning and teaching tools, crucial to ensuring quality public education for all. It has also laid out a set of important principles to provide international technology suppliers with a roadmap to...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 September 2013 Unite for Quality Education
On the 4 October 2013 , EI is launching a year of action, an initiative for quality education around the world that will culminate on a World Day of Action in October 2014. EI and ETUCE invite everybody who cares about the education of our children to join forces with...
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Union renewal and development 25 September 2013 Miscellaneous News
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 September 2013 Roma: Commission calls on Member States to step up efforts on integration
The European Commission has called on Member States to deliver on their commitments to ensure equality and to do more to improve the economic and social integration of Europe's 10 to 12 million Roma.
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Trade union rights are human rights 25 September 2013 Closing Conference on Healthy and Safe Workplaces in the Crisis
The closing conference of the ETUCE Project “Teacher Trade Unions in Solidarity for Healthy and Safe Workplaces in the Economic Crisis” will be held in Madrid on October 10-11. Representatives from national teacher unions, researchers, representatives of the education employers and students’ unions will gather to discuss how to promote...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 September 2013 DLF Congress 2013
The 2013 Danish Union of Teachers' Congress has been held on 10-12 September 2013, 4 resolutions were adopted.
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Union renewal and development 24 September 2013 Resolutions and renewal at conclusion of Asia-Pacific conference
Eight resolutions were adopted and a new executive board for the region was elected at the EI Asia-Pacific Regional Conference, held from 19-21 September in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 24 September 2013 Unite Diary: Education Focus of Early UN Sessions
The UN General Assembly has kicked off in the near-gridlocked city of New York for a week of meetings and speeches. It’s a critical time for education and Education International is here to voice concerns of the world’s educators; to keep access to quality education for all students high on...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 September 2013 Greece: Teachers’ ongoing strike to protest attacks on public education
Greek teachers have been on strike since 16 September in a campaign to have their demands met by public authorities. After a five–days rolling strike, the general assembly of OLME (Greek Federation of Secondary Education State School Teachers) called on educators to follow the strike action until 24 September.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 23 September 2013 Latin America: Putting education at the heart of social transformation
About 700 teachers came together at EI’s Latin America Regional conference entitled Towards a Latin American Pedagogical Movement, taking place from 19-21 September in Recife, Brazil. Over the three days, educators and trade unionists from 18 countries are debating new educational proposals and sharing their vision of a transformative public...
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Union renewal and development 21 September 2013 Latin America: Putting education at the heart of social transformation
About 700 teachers came together at EI’s Latin America Regional conference entitled Towards a Latin American Pedagogical Movement, taking place from 19-21 September in Recife, Brazil.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 20 September 2013 Asia-Pacific education unionists mobilise for quality public education
Around 400 participants at the 7th EI Asia-Pacific Regional Conference celebrated the pre-launch of EI’s campaign, Unite for Quality Education - Better education for a better world. The one-year campaign will be launched simultaneously in New York and Paris on 4 October.
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